A Panel Discussion Co-Presented by A.R.T. and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, presented in conjunction with the A.R.T. production of All The Way.
Moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
Panelists:
Peter Jay Fernandez, Roy Wilkins in the A.R.T. production of All The Way. Has appeared in numerous productions on Broadway including Cyrano de Bergerac, Julius Caesar, and The Merchant of Venice; off-Broadway including CQ/CX, Richard III, and Thunder Knocking on the Door, and on television programs including “House of Cards,” “The Good Wife,” and “Law & Order.”
Peniel E. Joseph, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Professor of History at Tufts University, and Du Bois Institute Caperton Fellow. His publications include the award-winning Waiting ’Til the MidnightHour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama. Currently writing a biography of Black Power icon Stokely Carmichael.
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Director of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Lecturer on History and Literature and on Public Policy. His publications include The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition and Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism.
Patricia Sullivan, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and a Du Bois Institute Fellow. Her publications include Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement and Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era.
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